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Wheeler Area Activities and Improve Council Inc

Scholarship programs for area students, funds for tom britt & wheeler lions club youth sports fields, medical cost, junior livestock show and other projects as set forth by board

$637k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$978kAnimals$362kEducation$330kArts & Culture$215kHuman Services$186kPhilanthropy$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kPublic Benefit$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $329,086, the rows itemized in this filing. The $637,227 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $308,141 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
$16,028
Median grant
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States reached
$489k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHEELER SPORTS GENERAL EXPENSES$69,245
DALTON O'GORMAN MEMORIAL ROPING FUN$61,987
DALTON O'GORMAN MEMORIAL ROPING FUN$32,346
SHAMROCK VETERANS MEMORIAL EXPENSE$25,316
DALTON O'GORMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND EX$19,208
SHAMROCK RODEO ASSOCIATION PRIZES P$18,830
SHAMROCK RODEO ASSOCIATION EXPENSES$17,210
THE LOWRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION E$16,028
WHEELER SPORTS BASEBALL EXPENSES$15,044
HEATHER CAMPBELL PODZEMENY-SHAMROCK$12,049
Individual grant recipient$9,825
MAXWELL CHARITABLE TRUST EXPENSE$8,000
SHAMROCK RODEO ASSOCIATION TRANSFER$7,000
FORT ELLIOTT BOOSTERS EXPENSE$6,016
WELDON & DOLORES SIMMONS MEMORIAL S$5,505
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%TOM BRITT PARKW LIONS CLUB: $124k → 15%TOM BRITT PARK & WHEELER LIONS CLUB: $62k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 18 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
21

Total granted

$2.2M
$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+163%

Still filing today

6%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DO
    DALTON O'GORMAN MEMORIAL ROPING FUN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $506k
  • WL
    WHEELER LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION EXPEN
    2× · 2019–2020 · $362k
  • SS
    STILES SCHOLARSHIP EXPENSE 6001260
    4× · 2019–2022 · $211k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $84k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $32k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALTON O'GORMAN MEMORIAL ROPING FUN: $506,440 · OtherDALTON O'GORMAN MEMORIAL ROPING FUNWHEELER LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION EXPEN: $361,885 · OtherWHEELER LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION EXPENSTILES SCHOLARSHIP EXPENSE 6001260: $210,838 · OtherSTILES SCHOLARSHIP EXPENSE 6001260TOM BRITT PARK & WHEELER LIONS CLUB: $167,131 · OtherTOM BRITT PARK & WHEELER LIONS CLUBSHAMROCK VETERANS MEMORIAL EXPENSE: $115,267 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,872 · OtherWHEELER SPORTS GENERAL EXPENSES: $93,412 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $84,332 · Other+34 more: $730,096 · Other+34 moreWHEELER AREA ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVE COUNCIL INC: $185,911 · Human ServicesMOBEETIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $10,360 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,370,273Human Services$185,911Public Safety & Disaster$10,360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHEELER AREA ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVE COUNCIL INC: $185,911 over 2y, 22% of budgetBRISCOE FIRE DEPT: $7,400 over 1y, 9.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WHEELER AREA ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MOBEETIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds BRISCOE FIRE DEPT ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wheeler Area Activities and Improve Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wheeler Area Activities and Improve Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Wheeler Area Activities and Improve Council Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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